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1236493

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date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to create a new ministerial responsibility within his Department to support the mining sector.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	91745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises and values the importance of mining as a foundation industry serving a number of other vital industrial activities, and therefore this sector is covered by the responsibilities of my Hon. Friend the Minister for Business and Industry.</p> answering member constituency Spelthorne answering member printed Kwasi Kwarteng question first answered 24/09/2020 11:26:08 answering member 4134 label Biography information for Kwasi Kwarteng
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1236495

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what progress is being made on the development of a covid-19 vaccine.
tabling member constituency	Crewe and Nantwich
tabling member printed	Dr Kieran Mullan
uin	91740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is leading efforts to find and manufacture a vaccine, working with industry and experts, both here in the UK and internationally to ensure we are in the best position possible to support the discovery, manufacture and mass-deployment of a successful vaccine should a candidate prove successful. A number of agreements to procure millions of doses of vaccines have been made, ensuring the greatest possible chance of securing access to a safe and effective vaccine. The UK has now secured access to 6 different candidates, across 4 different vaccines types, including University of Oxford’s vaccine being developed with AstraZeneca and agreements with BioNTech/Pfizer alliance, Valneva, Novavax, Janssen and GSK/Sanofi Pasteur.</p> answering member constituency Derby North answering member printed Amanda Solloway question first answered 22/09/2020 15:14:07 answering member 4372 label Biography information for Amanda Solloway
tabling member	4860 label Biography information for Dr Kieran Mullan

1236499

registered interest
date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Co-operative Insurance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential for (a) job losses and (b) loss of union recognition as a result of the sale of Co-op Insurance to Markerstudy.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham East
tabling member printed	Nadia Whittome
uin	91746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/09/2020 answer text <p>The details of mergers and takeovers are primarily a commercial matter for the parties concerned.</p><p> </p><p>The Employment Relations Act 1999 introduced a statutory recognition procedure that gave independent trade unions the right to apply to the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) to be recognised by an employer for collective bargaining over pay, hours and holidays in respect of a group of workers in a particular bargaining unit.</p><p> </p><p>Where an employer decides not to recognise or to derecognise a trade union, the union can use the statutory recognition procedure. The CAC can award recognition where a clear majority of the bargaining unit want it, and this is established in most cases through a ballot of the workforce.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 22/09/2020 15:19:11 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4869 label Biography information for Nadia Whittome